But, as it is written, "No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him,"

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.

For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you?

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

or rude, it does not seek its own, it is not provoked, it keeps no record of wrongs,

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know fullyeven as I have been fully known.

But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.

For I do not want to see you now just in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you with nothing to fear, for he is doing the work of the Lord, just as I am.